On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:25:44PM -0500, Michael Wiktowy wrote: > > > From: Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> > > Date: 28 Oct 2002 17:00:13 +0000 > > > > Well... we've had reports of the development branch causing 100% cpu > > usage and high loads, but on the other hand the load balancing code is > > promising. If you don't mind living on the edge, upgrade to the > > development branch (replace your freenet.jar with > > http://freenetproject.org/snapshots/freenet-unstable-latest.jar), set > > doLoadBalance=yes in your freenet.conf and tell us how it goes. > > Another thing that could be done is to turn down the default announce > time delay so that newer nodes are brought into the fold faster. > > I can safely say that my node is getting hammered as well. 138% of what > it should be (250 threads, 5978 requests per hour and my current routing > time is sometimes more then 2 seconds and sometimes reporting 0ms) and > getting lots and lots and lots of RNFs. This is with build 525. It is partly the load balancing, or lack thereof. As I said before, we need to get 0.5.1 ready in 1-2 weeks, with oskar's load handling mods on by default. > > I don't think that the solution to the network overloading is through > more effective throttling though. An overloaded Freenet does not decay > gracefully it would seem. A more preferable failure mode would be longer > waits rather then 99.9% RNFs. Yes. I'm not getting that many RNFs though... maybe it's gotten worse. > > This does indicate a weakness though. Freenet may be able to handle a > good slshdotting of requests but not a good slashdotting of > new/transient nodes. Something to remember for future PR pushes :] It > may be a good reason to have many frequent small point releases with > less significant changes or maybe even have wider coverage of the > pre-release to draw in a the newcomers over an extended period of time. > Hopefully the current network crippling rush does not damage Freenet's > credibility further and people stick with it until it can adapt. > > Mike >
-- Matthew Toseland toad at amphibian.dyndns.org amphibian at users.sourceforge.net Freenet/Coldstore open source hacker. Employed full time by Freenet Project Inc. from 11/9/02 to 11/11/02. http://freenetproject.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20021028/5eb49cd9/attachment.pgp>
